19 Jun 2013
Planet Security
hackaday: R2D2 cake plays Leia’s distress message
As all 6-year-olds should, [Marc]'s son is a huge fan of Star Wars. For his birthday party, he wanted a Star Wars themed cake, and making one in the shape of R2D2 seemed to be right up [Marc]'s alley. Of course any clone of everyone's favorite R2 unit should also display Leia's distress message to Ben Kenobi, and [Marc] figured out a way to do just that.
Because of R2′s strange and decidedly non-cake shape, [Marc] first constructed a stand out of wood, cardboard, and a PVC pipe to hold the cake into place. The cylindrical droid body is of course made of cake and frosting, with R2′s dome made out of fondant.
The PVC pipe running up the center of the droid provided [Marc] with the ability to run a power and video connector up R2′s spine. These are connected to a small projector receiving video from a netbook placed out of the way.
You can check out a video of the R2 cake playing Leia's holographic distress message below. At the end of the video, there's a 6-year-old birthday party guest saying, "what is that?" It might be time to dig out the VHS player and the non-remastered trilogy, [Marc].
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